Genesis 31:20

And Jacob hid the matter from Laban the Syrian, so as not to tell him that he ran away.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian, in that he told him not that he fled.

In Context

19And Laban went to shear his sheep; and Rachel stole her father’s images.

21And he departed himself and all that belonged to him, and passed over the river, and went into the mountain Gilead.

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Cross References

Genesis 25:20Abraham begot Isaac. And Isaac was forty years old when he took to wife Rebekah, daughter of Bethuel the Syrian, out of Syrian Mesopotamia, sister of Laban the Syrian.

Deuteronomy 26:5and he shall answer and say before the Lord thy God, My father abandoned Syria, and went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a small number, and became there a mighty nation and a great multitude.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 31:18-25

17 Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon camels; 18 And he carried away all his cattle, and all his goods which he had gotten, the cattle of his getting, which he had gotten in Padan-aram, for to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan. 19 And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images that were her father's. 20 And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian, in that he told him not that he fled. 21 So he fled with all that he had; and he rose up, and passed over the… Read the whole commentary →

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